Happy April to you :)

Hello! Happy Friday to you!I Hope your March went well. Here in Ireland, the saying “March of many weathers” certainly held true for us! We had snow (a rare sight in Ireland) and 18 degree (Celsius, another rare thing in Ireland ;) ) all in the one week.

Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries for March. It was a difficult job, but with great deliberation we narrowed it down to our top 3. Our top 3 are:

1st - #2 Cartai

2nd - #14 Light Whimsy

3rd -  #17 Ike

Please take the badge at the side, and display it proudly!

For our April theme, to incorporate Easter, it's "Easter - Anything but a card". You can interpret the theme any which way you wish!

Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

This month Leslie made a beautiful shabby chic gift bag!

Eithne, with help from her children, made these two gift bags for their teacher's Easter gifts!

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Sunday 30th April2017. Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

Have a great Friday!

Eithne and Michelle

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November challenge - 2 colours

Hello! Happy Friday to you :) In Ireland, you can feel the winter coldness! Within a week, the weather has turned cold and blustery. The colours in the countryside here, are fabulous. Such vibrant rust golds and orangey yellows. Amazing to see the turn of colours.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our challenge. It was wonderful to see all the beautiful projects. We will have the results in on Sunday morning.

This month our challenge is "Use Two Colours". (Excluding white or black) We are looking forward to seeing all your beautiful projects, 
Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

This month Leslie and Geraldine are getting Christmas ready!! Both have made beautiful cards that fit in with the two colour theme perfectly!
Geraldine's made this beautiful Christmas card:

Leslie made this beautiful Christmas card:

Eithne made a card for a friend.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Wednesday 30th November 2016. Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne and Michelle

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July Challenge - Summer Breeze!

Hello, and Happy Sunday to you. We are a few days later than usual, we are in summer holidays mode! Hope the start of your July is going well. Happy 4th of July to all our American followers for tomorrow.

Thank you for all the beautiful entries for our June Masculine challenge. It was very difficult to choose a top 3, but with great difficulty we chose
1st : #7 Kama
2nd : #35 Kevin
3rd : #5 Susan Kennedy
Please take the badge at the side, and display it proudly!

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our new challenge for July, is "Summer Breeze". You can interpret the theme anyway you like.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Here is Geraldine's beautiful card for our theme -

Suchi's beautiful card to suit the theme -

Eithne was inspired by colours for summer breeze, and crocheted a baby blanket-

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Sunday 31st July 2016. Hope you have a wonderful Sunday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

This is Suchi's last month on our Guest Design Team, for Craft for the Craic. I would like to thank her for all her hard work, dedication and commitment and wish her all the best in the future. We will miss you!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Sunday!

Eithne

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Luck of the Irish! Happy St. Patrick's Day :)

Hello! Wow, it’s March already! We are having little glimpses of Spring, here in Ireland, and it is so nice to see all the Spring flowers blooming. It gives such a glimmer of hope for a lovely summer ahead.

This year, March is a busy month - this Sunday is Mother's Day, so wishing all Mammy's out there, a lovely Mothering Sunday!! In the middle of March, we celebrate our Patron Saint's feast day - St. Patrick. Wherever you are, I hope you enjoy St. Patrick's Day (or Paddy's Day, but *NOT* Patty's Day ;)  ) In the words of my kiddies favourite film (Flight of the Doves)

"You don't have to be Irish to be Irish"!!

And then near the end of March it's Easter. Phew, busy month!

Thank you for all the beautiful February entries. We really enjoyed looking at everything that makes YOU smile. Our DT chose
1st - 65 Angelique
2nd - 58 Paperesse
3rd - 39 Sweet Kobylkin

  

^th. Inspired by this day, our theme for March is “The Luck of the Irish”. You can interpret this theme any way you wish!

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Here is the beautiful DT's inspiration: -

Suchi

 Eithne

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Thursday 31st March 2016.  Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Lá Fhéile Phádraig,

Eithne & Michelle :)

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October mid month inspiration :D

Hello and happy Friday to you! Hope you are keeping well and warm on these crisp Autumn days :)

Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries so far. This month's theme is 'Inspired by Music' and if you wish to play along, please enter here.

This month our challenge is "inspired by music". You can interpret the theme any way you wish.

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Today we have some beautiful mid-month inspiration.
I should follow Geraldine's lead and start preparing for Christmas. Check out her beautiful Christmas card.

Check out Joanna's beautiful card, and all the fab musical elements.

Almost at the end of Birthday Season in my house, this is the card I made for my daughters birthday (not *actually* inspired by the song, but a favourite nonetheless in our house "Sarah" by Thin Lizzy)

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Saturday 31st October (Halloween).

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We hope you enjoy your Friday!

Eithne :)

End of month inspiration

Hello! Hope you are enjoying the last Friday in August! Can't believe it's nearly September!

For the end of month inspiration, Angela and Eithne have two beautiful cards inspired by the photo inspiration.

It is my (Eithne's) garden, which is the wild side of the garden! I discovered a bees nest under the flower bed in against the wall, so it was abandoned this summer! Despite the lack of attention, the beautiful green ferns against the purple wall always lifts the garden, even on the wet day, of which this summer we have a lot! You can interpret the picture any way you like - a garden, the colours, the flowers, the wildness etc etc. but you will be disqualified if you look for the weeds! (only kidding ;) )

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

This week Angela made this beautiful card, check out her blog for more details.

Eithne made this card, check out her blog for more details!

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Monday 31st August.

If you are crafting this weekend, why not give the challenge a go!

Eithne

July's Mid Month Inspiration :)

Hello! Hope your Friday is going well. Thank you for such beautiful entries so far.

Today we have some beautiful mid month inspiration to share with you.

Geraldine made a beautiful summer birthday card -

Joanna made a beautiful summer card -

Eithne made a beach scene summer card -

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Friday July 31st.

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

Hope you enjoy the weekend.

Eithne & Michelle :)

Mid month inspiration!

Hello! And happy Friday to you :) Hope you are having a wonderful day, in Ireland this week we are having some beautiful sunny days.

Today we have some mid month inspiration from our design team.

 Sylwia's beautiful card, using die cuts.

 

 Henryka made this beautiful treasure box:

 Pixie's beautiful card -

 Eithne made a birthday card using different die cuts

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Thursday April 30th.

Hope you have a wonderful Friday and if you are crafting, why not give the challenge a go?

Happy crafting,

Eithne and Michelle

Last week of challenge and GIVEAWAY!

Hello! Hope your enjoying the second half of October :) In Ireland, this weekend is our long weekend. Thank God for long weekends ;) 

For October's (Deireadh Fomhair) challenge, the theme is:

"Something suitable for a child or has a childish theme"

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

For some inspiration this Friday, check out what Katya and Eithne have designed:

Katya  created a beautiful card.

Eithne

Our challenge is open until midnight Friday October 31st.

Don't forget to enter our giveaway! Mixed Media Place have very kindly sponsored - "Early Fall" kit. Look at that fabulous kit. You can enter here to be in with a chance of winning this fantastic prize.

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

Happy Crafting,

Michelle and Eithne :)

Challenge #1 - Heart

Good morning, and welcome to our very first challenge. Ooohhhhh I'm so excited to get going :) As Valentine's is only around the corner, this months theme is 'heart', so anything with a heart in your project qualifies :)  Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, baking, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it! 

For inspiration this month, here is what Michelle, Pixie and I created -

Michelle

Eithne

Pixie (Margaret)

To see more photos and details on each of the projects, just visit our blogs!

We would love for you to join in our challenge, remember anything that encourages, motivates or promotes your creativity, if it has a heart on it we would LOVE to see it ;) Our challenges start the first Friday of the month, and ends the last day of the month (so this month's finishes February 28th)

We are pretty easy going about rules, but if you'd like, read this page.

Thanks for popping by, hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Eithne :)